Yesterday I was listening to Tom Marr on WCBM when a caller brought up "NBC" taking the traditional Republican Blue and Democrat Red election map colors
and flipping them. His explanation was that "Democrats=Red" was
just too unfortunate an association for media to swallow. Tom Marr poo-poo'd the idea,
stating that
Dems had always been blue. Surprised me, because Marr has been
around
a long time. Marr was wrong.

What the caller missed however was that the flip was coordinated (there
was no Fox News) on all networks, CNN included. This
happened
sometime around Bush41—Clinton. I could find out by
watching
election videos, but I can't be bothered. What further surprised me was
that it went unmentioned, in my experience, until yesterday. Hmmm. I
think what we have here is a probable first palpable example of the
Democrat Media Complex in action.

Of course I can't be sure that the reason for the switch was the
"Commie Red" v. "True Blue" association, but it was something.
And it was effected simultaneously across the television news
spectrum. Anyway, not two hours later I serendipitously happened
across this video.

PS- I have a gnawing feeling that I first wrte about this on Free Republic ca1997, so I will guess it was Clinton's doing.

Thanks
to George Kowalczuk for this bit of fun. Again, this is
representative of the culture many of us grew up in; so what
happened? If I was to pick a turning point, it would be
AUGUST 9, 1974. That's the day Richard Nixon was driven out of
office in what I (and many others) can only view as a silent
coup. The 1974 off-year elections saw a wholesale slaughter of
Republicans; replaced by what we now recognize as the vanguard of
the neo-Democrat Party that rules today.

How leftist were they? Hint; ten years later
the the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) nominated their last presidential
candidate, Gus Hall. After that, the CPUSA simply endorsed
Democrat candidates. .

“Dianne
Feinstein joins push to keep health plans
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that she will co-sponsor
a bill by Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) to require insurance companies to
continue offering their existing health care plans — a way to make good
on President Barack Obama’s promise that consumers can keep their
current coverage if they like it.”

If it's true that Democrats thrive on creating
problems that they can later campaign with promises of fixing,
and it manifestly is, then these two are poster girls. Since
Obamacare passed by one vote in the Senate, every Democrat is
personally responsible for its enactment. But some are more equal
than others. Mary Landrieu took a $100 million (of taxpayer
money) bribe for her vote, and is singled
out as "the deciding vote for
Obamacare (and is) in a
panic, not for you, but for her own political career."